Acoustics
The acoustic performance of a graphics card is an increasingly important consideration for PC users and Gamers these days. While fan noise is unlikely to ruin the gaming experience, no one likes a noisy graphics card and no one will argue with the fact that quieter is better. Many users are willing to sacrifice temperatures to gain a noise advantage, but with better cooling solutions being developed it is increasingly common to be able to get both better cooling and better acoustic performance than a reference solution on most custom cooled graphics cards from Nvidia and AMD partners. That said both AMD and Nvidia have stepped up their game too with regards to acoustics on their reference coolers. Ultimately, acoustics will always be a big deciding factor when there is often very little differentiation between graphics cards using the same GPUs.
Find details of our acoustic methodology on page 3.
Why isn’t there any 290x results in this review?
there is a LOT of cards missing from this, basically every card competing with or beating this card except for the reference 780 is left out.
True but the 290x is the most direct competition for this card in both price and performance.
Agreed with this post, I wanted to see how it will put up against the reference R9-290X. What you could do is compare the FPS in the games that appear on both this review and the R9-290X review at most.
See Ryans comment further up, we have a reason (and solution) to this problem 🙂
im very sorry for going on such a minor detail, but wouldn’t other non reference 780’s be its most direct competition?
Maybe but sadly we have no other GTX 780s to test so that won’t be possible.
This review was written well before we reviewed the 290x or tested the gtx titan. sadly it was delayed in the system, in terms of publication, for a while and it now looks outdated and incomplete.
You can see this card up against the 290x/titan in this review
http://www.eteknix.com/amd-radeon-r9-290x-graphics-card-review/
When i have time later on this will I may come back and edit the graphs for this review.
GTX Titan and R9 290X added
we talk about a good graphic card…..and gpu clock in 954mhz are enought for ….keep going gigabyte…..